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Football Nearly Sweeps Weekly Ivy Awards
11/9/2009 2:00:00 PM | Football
PRINCETON, N.J. — Dartmouth freshman quarterback Greg Patton doubled up on the Ivy League weekly awards by being named the Offensive Player and Rookie of the Week, while sophomore place kicker Foley Schmidt took home the Special Teams Player of the Week award.
Patton, a native of College Park, Ga., played in his first varsity game this past Saturday and merely broke the Dartmouth single-game rushing record with 243 yards on 29 carries out of the Wildcat formation. He scored both Dartmouth touchdowns — the first a 52-yard sprint in the fourth quarter, the second a 13-yarder in the first overtime period — to help the Big Green overcome a 10-0 fourth-quarter deficit to win a 20-17 double-overtime thriller against Cornell.
The rushing record had stood for 18 years until two weeks ago when sophomore running back Nick Schwieger ran for 242 yards against Columbia. But Patton, who had 218 yards in regulation and 108 in the fourth quarter alone, carried the ball all four plays in the first overtime period to tack on his last 25 yards and best Schwieger by a single yard.
While the 52-yard touchdown run was his longest of the day, Patton also had runs of 45 and 27 yards, and had a 40-plus yard gain called back due to a holding penalty.
Schmidt, from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., provided several clutch kicks in the game to become the first Big Green player to win the Ivy Special Teams Player of the Week award in over seven years. With 2:17 remaining in regulation, he connected on a 26-yard field goal to tie the game at 10 and force overtime. Schmidt had to convert his PAT in the first overtime to send the game into a second extra period, then booted a season-long 40-yard field goal that proved to be the winning margin when the Big Red could not put a 36-yard field goal through the uprights.
The last Dartmouth player to be the Special Teams Player of the Week was Tyler Lavin for his performance against New Hampshire on Sept. 28, 2002. No Ivy school had gone longer in winning any of the weekly awards — that distinction now falls to Princeton which has not had an Ivy League Rookie of the Week since 2003.
Two other Big Green players were also named to the Ivy Honor Roll — sophomore receiver Michael Reilly who caught a career-high nine passes for 76 yards and forced a fumble, and junior linebacker Pat Scorah who had nine tackles, four solo and one for a loss, with a forced fumble and his first career interception.
Dartmouth (2-6, 2-3 Ivy) travels to Brown (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) this Saturday with a chance to move into a tie for third place in the league standings.
Patton, a native of College Park, Ga., played in his first varsity game this past Saturday and merely broke the Dartmouth single-game rushing record with 243 yards on 29 carries out of the Wildcat formation. He scored both Dartmouth touchdowns — the first a 52-yard sprint in the fourth quarter, the second a 13-yarder in the first overtime period — to help the Big Green overcome a 10-0 fourth-quarter deficit to win a 20-17 double-overtime thriller against Cornell.
The rushing record had stood for 18 years until two weeks ago when sophomore running back Nick Schwieger ran for 242 yards against Columbia. But Patton, who had 218 yards in regulation and 108 in the fourth quarter alone, carried the ball all four plays in the first overtime period to tack on his last 25 yards and best Schwieger by a single yard.
While the 52-yard touchdown run was his longest of the day, Patton also had runs of 45 and 27 yards, and had a 40-plus yard gain called back due to a holding penalty.
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The last Dartmouth player to be the Special Teams Player of the Week was Tyler Lavin for his performance against New Hampshire on Sept. 28, 2002. No Ivy school had gone longer in winning any of the weekly awards — that distinction now falls to Princeton which has not had an Ivy League Rookie of the Week since 2003.
Two other Big Green players were also named to the Ivy Honor Roll — sophomore receiver Michael Reilly who caught a career-high nine passes for 76 yards and forced a fumble, and junior linebacker Pat Scorah who had nine tackles, four solo and one for a loss, with a forced fumble and his first career interception.
Dartmouth (2-6, 2-3 Ivy) travels to Brown (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) this Saturday with a chance to move into a tie for third place in the league standings.
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